According to that review it's a give-away in conjunction with a purchase of the new Slave 1 at one Swedish store affiliated with the LEGO Group. Not definitive proof that it's going to always be a give-away, but it's a start.

Having looked at the comparison photos in that site review, I reeeeeeeaally wish they'd added Cloud City style print to the arms and legs of the soon-to-be released latest Fett, to make him the ultimate Fett. After all, they've clearly gone to a lot of effort to make him a 'near' perfect fett, those little details would go some way to removing the word 'near'.

legomatt wrote:Having looked at the comparison photos in that site review, I reeeeeeeaally wish they'd added Cloud City style print to the arms and legs of the soon-to-be released latest Fett, to make him the ultimate Fett. After all, they've clearly gone to a lot of effort to make him a 'near' perfect fett, those little details would go some way to removing the word 'near'.

They don't need to do that, though, because you could piece it together yourself if you wanted. That's kinda the entire point of LEGO - they'll sell you an item that's a good representation of a TIE Fighter, for instance, but if you wanted to make it even more accurate, you can do so by buying more pieces or using them from your existing collection!

Yes, but I don't have the cloud city fett... which kinda' makes that a non-starter for me, plus if i did have one (or bought one second hand) I wouldn't dream of pulling his arms off, cos' i'd be down one CC fett. Incidentally, is it just me, or am i alone in thinking it feels wrong (no problem with others doing it) to pull arms off a lego person? I've never done it, ever.

For me, (just my own personal feeling here, i have no issue with what other people do) the arms of a lego minifig aren't really supposed to come off, for me it's just a movable joint. Of course, I know they can come off if you pull them off, but its just not for me, it would feel too much like i'm breaking and fixing it again. It doesn't feel 'designed' or 'intended' to come off.

legomatt wrote:Incidentally, is it just me, or am i alone in thinking it feels wrong (no problem with others doing it) to pull arms off a lego person? I've never done it, ever.

For me, (just my own personal feeling here, i have no issue with what other people do) the arms of a lego minifig aren't really supposed to come off, for me it's just a movable joint. Of course, I know they can come off if you pull them off, but its just not for me, it would feel too much like i'm breaking and fixing it again. It doesn't feel 'designed' or 'intended' to come off.

You're probably not alone, but I'd wager you're in the minority - I've seen people use all sorts of pieces of minifigs in MOCS (the hands, especially, as guns on microspace ships and the like). A lot of sellers on Bricklink sell just torsos with no arms, and the torso w/arms and hands is considered an 'upper body assembly'. They're too easy to pull off and put back on to not be intended to be used that way. That's what LEGO is all about: Interchangeability. To most I would think swapping out arms and legs is the same as swapping a head or helmet. While I like to keep my figures intact for the most part, if I want to build a custom figure I don't think twice about swapping out the arms or legs.

I'm with legomatt. Not that I've never done it or frown upon it, but to me yanking out the actual arms seems like a fragile thing to do. There's that circular bump on the inside that I've observed to be larger than the hole for the arm, so it never seems like an easily interchanged element of the minifig, unlike the hands, head, or legs.

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I find that if you remove the hand first, then slight outward pressure pops the arms out with no problems, and no threat of cracking -- apparently leaving the hand in puts too much stress on the "wrist" and encourages it to crack eventually.

I have to do this to reverse the torso in converting all my Aquaraider II figs to my custom Team Trident spacemen: thank the makers for the two-sided printing!

It would have been great with a thread in the Finds part of the Forums about the white Boba not only being available at TRU this time around. I saw the poster in my local store (no TRU where I live) the day after they gave out the last one.

Now, I just paid the amount for a Plo Koon's Starfighter for a white Boba on a Swedish auction site...

Wow, that's awesome! I remember getting a similar gift (though not as fancy) in 2002 or 2003--TLG sent me a neat little cardboard box with the original Mini TIE Fighter. It was a nifty little thing then (I was mostly thrilled to be the recipient of a gift), but man is this gift more elaborate.

I am the brain, that which keeps you saneI think your thoughts, I feel your painI am able to control both body and soulI am never asleep, and I make you whole.